Microsoft Broke the Only Thing That Actually Mattered - Yanko Design
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Any tech nerd knows the unspoken contract that comes with being the only tech-literate person in the family. You get texts when someone's laptop is slow, called over during the holidays to fix the router, and consulted every eighteen months when someone needs a new phone or computer. For years, the laptop question had a
    • Thorry@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yeah it looks like someone else did the headings as compared to the text itself.

      There is a section called “This pattern has a name”, only for it not to tell us what that name actually is. It may have a name, but they aren’t inclined to share it with us apparently.

    • zloubida@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      That and other small details give me an AI-feeling, but we reached a point where we can’t know anymore.

  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Enjoyment? bet they wish they could, they probs have a team working on it right now…how can we suck the happiness out of those stubborn people who smile.

    I love linux

  • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    recommending Ubuntu to a non-technical family member invites more trouble than relief.

    Backing up claims with evidence has come out of fashion, I see. But doing so would have shown the author that his couldn’t be further from the truth: in fact, people with very limited computer literacy and needs (a bit of browsing, media consumption, communication, light office use) are the easiest demographic to migrate to Linux. It’s the power users with their multitude of applications and deeply ingrained habits that may have a hard time to make the switch. And I’ve seen even those come 'round because they’re getting tired of MS breaking their OS every other week now and forcing shit down their throat that they neither want nor need.

    But, no, let’s ignore all that and go for the obvious solution: a 600 USD Macbook that will put people through the same pains of transitioning to a different system, only to be yet again vendor-locked to a new corporate environment that will chip away at their ownership of their machines until it, too, is fully enshittified.